]. they framed people. that's how stupid them college geniuses are. my wife, she's bleeding all over the place. >> a family dog witnessed a brutal murder. >> whoever entered knew the victim, knew the dog. >> an animal expert finally got the talk to talk. just not in a usual way. ♪ there are two sides to palm beach county, florida. it's home to some of the wealthiest people in the world. but a few miles away lived people struggling, just to pay their rent. >> they have a lot of crime for the size of the community, we

have an extensive amount of violent crime. a lost murder. >> kathy and jeffrey lynde didn't live in one of the palm beach mansions. jeff was a tow truck driver. kathy worked for the walgreens drugstore chain. >> i liked jeff, he was a good kid, he was good to kathy, and the main thing was she loved him. >> on june 15, 2004, jeff got home from work around 7:00 p.m., but when he walked inside, he found blood everywhere. >> what's the problem there? >> my wife wife hurt. >> what's her name? >> my wife's hurt. >> he was hysterical on the phone, the 911 dispatcher kept referring to him as a woman. >> okay, ma'am, i need to you take some deep breaths.

okay, breathe in and breathe out. okay, now, are you having an asthma attack? >> no, my wife, my wife is on the floor. she's bleeding all over the place. >> the blood spatter was completely up the one wall where the side of her head was, then on the opposite wall where her head was a good five to six feet. blood spatter was all over the desk. if flew underneath a desk to a wall and a chair. it was very gruesome. >> when the ambulance crew arrived, they pronounced kathy dead at the scene. he had been beaten to death. >> there wasn't an injury that was caused by one blow or two blows to the head. this was something heavy that created these injures. >> in between the first blow and the one that eventually killed

her, she had to have been suffering, she was in pain and she had to be thinking why. >> the murder weapon wasn't found at the scene, although it looked like it was a blunt object with a hexagon shape at the end. two of the couple's three dogs were badly beaten, too, they were found unconscious nearby. >> they were both euthanized because of the head injuries. the career head injuries. >> the dogs had blood on heir paws and mouths, an indication they probably attacked the killer as he was striking kathy. >> the pack thing would have kicked in. and the two of them would have packed up on this one individual. so you would have had -- in my opinion, you would have had probably quite a bit of damage. >> and the killer would be bleeding profusely from those wounds. >> it was decideded we would go ahead and clip their nails and swab their mouths because, again, if this was a home invasion type situation, there's

a good chance that these dogs had scratched or bit the intruder. >> the couple's third dog was found in a closed bedroom apparently unharmed. >> it was a mystery why anybody would choose to go into this residence with the three dogs. especially being large dogs. >> whenever i talked to detective kim bradley, she told me, we will get justice for kathy, we are going to find the person that did this.

with no clear suspects, at least none that we're being told about, the sheriff's department is proceeding with no real help. asking anyone who had information to give them a call. >> kathy lamb's murder scene was stranger than any investigators had ever encountered. at first, they assumed the motive was robbery, kathy's husband jeff said the only thing missing was a pair of kathy's gold diamond earrings. >> the bedroom, nothing has been

disturbed. the clothes still sitting there folded up. there's lots of jewelry and items on top of the dresser. >> the medical examiner estimated that kathy was murdered between 4:30 and 5:00 in the afternoon. since jeff lamb found his wife's body, he was naturally considered a suspect. >> jeff lamb had a very good alibi. he's at his employment, and there's several people there that can vouch for his whereabouts at the time. >> soon, other suspects emerged. while police processed the crime scene, a woman named joey steidel arrived and introduced herself as jeff lamb's fiancee. >> curious that the grieving husband is being consoled outside of the crime scene with

his fiancee. >> when a guy tells you about a relationship with his wife and then the fiancee shows up. >> while jeff admit head had an affair he claims it was over. >> jeffrey's story was he reconciled with his wife and they were going to be permanenting living together. it's contradictory that joey would cup in and say, oh, no, we're moving into his house in jupiter. >> joey stydell was also a suspect dozens of people saw her. jeff's cell phone identified yet another suspect. on the afternoon of the murder, jeff lamb spoke with mother female friend on the telephone. >> the first phone call that was made after the murder took place was made to lisa absavel was a

married mother of two children when questioned she, too, had a relationship with jeff lamb. lisa's husband had caught them in a compromising situation just two weeks before kathy lamb's murder. >> he had pants on or shoes. i grabbed him and he ran out the back glass door. >> ray then said he called jeff on the phone. >> i called him on the cell phone, i was mad, said i'd kill him, i'd do anything to protect my family and i don't want him around. >> when we first learned that raymond had been so angry at jeff, we were somebody that we were interested in, we certainly had to investigate. >> both ray and lisa had an

alibi for the day of kathy's murder and were eliminated as suspects. but police were still troubled by lisa's telephone calls to jeff on the afternoon of the murder. lisa said they were purely social. phone records proved that lisa made these calls from home. but jeff's cell phone records indicated jeff wasn't at work as he claimed. >> we get the phone records which showed he is down by that house. the phone towers are hitting off of phone towers closer to the house than they are where he claims to be. >> and investigators found another contradiction. jeff said his dog bandit was in a locked bedroom when he found his wife's body. but investigators found bloody paw prints in the bedroom, and the blood was kathy's. this man, the killer put the dog

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an unknown assailant not only attacked kathy lamb but also her two dogs nipper and

dakota, presumably, with the same weapon. >> kathy's friends and even mr. lamb himself said those dogs that were in that house would have torn apart a stranger. >> but investigators couldn't understand why the dogs were all together. >> why were her two smaller dogs beat so severely, and yet the biggest dog of the group was never struck? and the dog was also locked in a bedroom -- the third dog was a hybrid wolf mix that was owned by the husband. >> investigators thought the blood on the dog's mouth and paws had come from kathy's attacker but forensic testing disproved that. >> the swabs and clippings that had been taken from the dogs came back negative for any human dna. >> the couple's third dog bandit

was initially not to be unharmed. but the human society suffered injuries, too. but not from the killer. >> we discovered that bandit actually had several puncture marks which had indicated he had been in a fight. probably had been in a fight with one of the two dogs. >> so the dogs attacked one another, but not while the killer was beating them. >> they stood there and took their beatings and went and hid. >> to animal behavorialists, the reason is clear. a stranger wouldn't have been able to beat those dogs brutally without them beaten without them fighting back. somebody obviously knew the dogs so it had to be somebody that weren't able to fight back. >> it seemed from the evidence that only one person could have done this crime. >> but prosecutors had a problem, the surviving dog bandit obviously couldn't tell police what happened. so investigators had to dig

deeper and started by looking into jeff lamb's finances. a few years earlier, jeff's former employer accused him of stealing almost $30,000. he returned the money and agreed to pay an additional $20,000 fine. his current job as a tow truck driver didn't pay particularly well. and these payments were a hardship. >> $20,000 is a lot of money to most people. but to some people, it's like a million dollars. >> police also discovered that jeff was the beneficiary of kathy's $29,000 life insurance policy. >> was making restitution for private criminal activity. i think he was tired of making those payments. >> in a search for forensic evidence, investigators had the presence of mind to confiscate the clothing jeff was wearing

the day of the murder. a forensic analysis found no blood on the shirt and boots. but blood spatter expert stewart james examined the jeans. section by section, under a stereo microscope. >> well, the dark color of the jeans certainly made it more difficult to see blood. >> but at 60 times magnificati n magnification, james could see things deep inside the fabric, on the jeans left leg, near the inside of the thigh, james saw tiny specks of what appeared to be blood. >> suspected blood stains that were actually down within the weave and between the weave of the fabric. which indicated to me that these

stains were not the result of transfer which would have just been on the top of the weave, but, rather, down driven into the weave, much more consistent with impact spatter. >> the blood spatter was the same size and shape as one would expect to find after inflitctin a beating with a blunt object. dna testing of this blood revealed it was kathy lamb's blood. >> we have impact spatters at the scene, on the wall. and we also have impact spatters on the left interior thigh area of the dark jeans from jeffrey lamb. >> this was definitive proof jeffrey lamb struck the fatal blows. and blood spatter expert stewart james found one more thing. >> he just happened to reach into one of the pockets just checking to see if there was anything in there.

and he found an earring, a little diamond earring that belonged to kathy. and jeff lamb told the police that those earrings were missing. >> investigators now had everything they needed, except the murder weapon. who feel like there's a brick on their face. who are so congested, it feels like the walls are closing in. ♪ who are so stuffed up, they feel like they're under water. try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter.

two months after cathy lamb's murder, a worker found a tire iron on the roof of his building. >> he'd been on the roof because

it had been leaking over a tow company. and he found a fire tool that was used on one of their big, big tow trucks. >> it was the office building of the tow yard where jeff lamb worked. the tire iron had hexagonal heads for loosening and tightening nuts. it was tested for dna. >> we tried everything to test the tire iron, but the problem is it's south florida, and it rains all the time, the tire iron was on the roof for 2 1/2 months. the sun would have evaporated any dna as well as the water washing it off. >> but since it was so distinctive, as were the wounds on cathy's body, the tire iron was still a valuable piece of evidence. the hexagonal head was placed over photographs of cathy lamb's wounds. >> and you look at the injuries on cathy's face, there's no way anything in the world anything other than this did it. >> jeffrey lamb was arrested and charged with first-degree

murder. prosecutors believe jeff wanted out of his marriage. he often told friends that cathy was a poor housekeeper. but apparently jeff was no better. >> he called her dirty and yet his truck was filthy. he had more garbage in his truck than you would throw out in the street. i don't know if you would call him a hypocrite or something, but he didn't live a better lifestyle than his wife. >> the couple separated for a few years, but even after they reconciled, jeff continued to have affairs. cathy tolerated his infidelity, but she didn't like it. >> i felt very sorry for cathy. i felt very bad because i knew that she loved him very much and i thought she would be very hurt over that. >> jeff was paying off a $20,000 fine for embezzlement, and a divorce would have left him with even less money to make those payments. >> jeff had a friend. he had told him that i'm not going to lose my stuff and i'm not going to give up her life insurance policy. i'll kill her before she divorces me.

>> prosecutors believe jeff planned to use cathy's life insurance proceeds to start a new life with his fiancee. on the afternoon of the murder, jeff was at work. his fiancee's car was at the tow yard for repairs. according to co-workers, jeff said he was taking the car to get gasoline and left sometime between 4:30 and 5:00. the evidence suggests he went home, waited for cathy to return from work, and when she did, beat her to death with a tire iron. in the process, he got blood spatter on his jeans. the dogs didn't attack him, but in their agitation, they attacked each other.

to separate them, he hit cathy's dogs and took his dog bandit into the bedroom and closed the door. he took cathy's diamond earrings to make it look like a robbery. one of those earrings was later found in his pocket. jeff changed his shirt and shoes but not his jeans. he probably didn't see the blood on them. jeff's friend lisa called him on his cell phone just after 5:00 p.m. the call bounced off a cell tower near jeff's home, proving he wasn't at work as he had claimed. there was no evidence lisa new anything about the murder. when he returned to the tow yard, he threw the murder weapon up onto the roof thinking no one would ever find it. >> it was planned.

he took my daughter from us, her family, and her friends for $29,000. >> in september of 2006, jeffrey lamb was convicted of first-degree murder. he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> we were confident going to trial because the case wasn't just based on science, it was based on common sense. >> i don't believe he gets up one morning of one day and says how could i have done that to that human being? besides the fact that she was my wife, besides the fact that i have known her since she was a teenager. >> his first mistake was not to change his clothes after he killed his wife. the second mistake would be throwing a tool up on a roof where it doesn't belong and somebody may discover it. >> his clothing was the key to

the case. if the detectives had not asked him to remove his clothing, we could never have convicted him of a crime. he definitely would be walking free today. there was a break-in. and a murder. >> i think my dad's been shot. >> it looked like an execution. >> my first thought was, this was a hit. >> until a closer look at the forensic evidence revealed the truth. >> that was definitely a staged scene. one of the best defense lawyers in san antonio, texas, was leslie bond. >> leslie was a workaholic, if you know anything about guys trying to reach that status of professionalism, leslie was a